For where a person seeks himself, there he falls from love. Love is circumspect, humble, and upright; not yielding to softness, or to lightness, nor attending to vain things. It is sober, chaste, firm, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.
Love is subject and obedient to its superiors, to itself mean and despised, to God devout and thankful, trusting and hoping always in Him, even when God is not sweet: for without sorrow none lives in love. He that is not prepared to suffer all things, and to do the will of his Beloved, is not worthy to be called a lover. A lover ought to embrace willingly all that is hard and bitter, for the sake of his Beloved; nor to turn away from Him in adversity. •